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Automating Management Capabilities with Crowd Sourced APIs
Building on over 25 years of complex network management interfaces, TM Forum working with its members have crowd sourced a series of business management APIs to improve the ability to automate key management capabilities, using common APIs so that the industry can communicate more effectively across boundaries. The increasingly complex multi-partner digital services value chain raises new challenges in terms of ensuring time-to-market, seamless management, cost-effectiveness and revenue sharing.
TM Forum APIs are for developers and include specifications, reference implementations, postman, example code, sandbox and testing capabilities.
What?
TM Forum's Business Management APIs are a family of REST based APIs which make it easier to create, build and operate complex, innovative services.
Current APIs
- Trouble Ticket
- Customer Management
- Product Catalog Management
- Product Inventory Management
- Product Ordering
- Billing Management
- Party Management
- SLA Management
- Usage Management
- Performance Management
Why?
- Develop quickly using proven APIs
- Ensure seamless management across partner boundaries
including revenue sharing - Leverage simple and lightweight management APIs which have
been crowdsourced from across the industry - Use common APIs that will be supported by potential partners
- Build upon over 25 years of expertise in end-to-end
management capabilities - Because its faster and more efficient in gaining high quality
Where?
- When you are building products which are a mash-up
of capabilities from different providers - When you want to manage the end to end quality or delivery
of this service - When you want to expose capabilities through an open
standard catalog API - When you want to manage key capabilities like
federated identity and service level agreements across
boundaries
TM Forum Ecosystem API Contributing Companies
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